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Subject:	Re: Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:42:57 GMT
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Eduardo, I really like this idea. I have no experience whatsoever with making bootable CDs, but I'm sure someone else here does. Some questions... I assume that all file saving would happen to hard disk or floppy, unless a rewritable medium such as Zip disk were used. Does it need to be a bootable CD? Would it be ok if you booted the host system, then loaded the CD? I'm not sure how the various LDraw tools would handle not knowing what drive letter they're on before they're used. IIRC, the original LDraw assumed it was located in C:\LDRAW, and would need an environment variable set if that weren't the case. (Or maybe I'm just on crack.) How would MLCad and LeoCAD handle this situation, I wonder? Do you think a Windows 3.1 environment is absolutely necessary? Pros: a GUI for non-command-line folks; cons: memory sucked up by windows. I wonder, is it possible to get a quasi-32-bit Windows (W95, W98) onto a bootable CD? Pros: you can use the excellent 32-bit LDraw tools; you can use long filenames, better memory management than Windows 3.1; cons: might be impossible due to the structure of windows. An alternative is to go pure DOS, no GUI at all. If you need cheap (virtually free) and reliable multitasking, there's always DesqView (but again, there's the memory issue). Cheers, - jsproat p.s. It occurs to me that a CD-bootable LDraw Linux distro would ROCK if there were even a handful of decent LDraw tools available for Linux. You wouldn't even need X loaded, just do all the screen code via Allegro or SDL...

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		Re: Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
(...) Ouch! That really stings! All kidding aside, what exactly would comprise "a handful of decent LDraw tools". Besides a linux l3p executable, what's missing? I'd like some ideas to add to my "to do" list. (...) That's an interesting thought. Is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Yet another idea - Portable LDraw system
(...) And considering that I just got a single bootable CD Linux system, which runs both KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.org and a bunch of other stuff, it would probably not be difficult to modify this with some LDraw tools added. The big problem - as I see (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Yet another idea - Portable Ldraw system
As sometime the electricity goes and as I don't have a laptop and even sometimes my brother wants to play games as I have a powerfull PC but I can't just stop my ldraw work or what ever i'm doing for him to play so as we have 3 pc's and I found on (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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